1“Past Tense”

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: In the lat­est in a best-sell­ing thriller se­ries, Jack Reacher stum­bles across the New Hamp­shire town where his father was born; in a par­al­lel nar­ra­tive, a Cana­dian cou­ple whose car breaks down check into a strange mo­tel.

THE BUZZ: “Su­perb…Child’s spare prose con­tin­ues to set a very high bar,” Publishers Weekly says in a starred review.